{"id":3893304,"url":"https://alion.io/job/scottish-government-technical-delivery-manager","title":"Technical Delivery Manager","company":{"id":2109038,"name":"Scottish Government","domain":"remotesensingdata.gov.scot","url":"https://alion.io/company/remotesensingdata","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dundee, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-26T12:23:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-26","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T00:37:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":15,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":15},"description":"We currently have an opportunity for a Technical Delivery Manager to join our Digital Services team. This role will suit someone who is confident taking accountability for the performance of a delivery team and ensuring outcomes are achieved.\nAt this level, you will build and maintain teams, making sure they are motivated, collaborating effectively, and focused on delivering digital services. You will identify and remove obstacles, keep delivery momentum, and prioritise what matters most.\nYou will work in line with Social Security Scotland’s delivery strategy and project management principles, and closely with a range of internal technical teams, suppliers, and stakeholders. You will have responsibility for coordinating the delivery of digital products and services across key platforms, ensuring technology is used to deliver high-quality business services for clients and colleagues.\nThe complexity and scope of delivery will vary depending on the programme or service area, but in every case, you will play a central role in ensuring successful delivery across the Agency’s portfolio of change.\nA Technical Delivery Manager is accountable for the performance of the team. At this role level, you will:\nBuild and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well\nIdentify obstacles and help the team to overcome them\nFocus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services\nEncourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team\nCoach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques\nThe complexity or breadth of products or teams will vary in this role, depending on the context\n Responsibilities\nApply and adapt effective delivery methods.\nPromote continuous improvement and resilience.\nSupport teams in tracking delivery outcomes.\nManage supplier and stakeholder relationships.\nUnderstand government processes and third-party dependencies.\nManage stakeholder expectations and communication.\nEnsure compliance with service standards.\nManage delivery priorities, pace and progress as well as proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies.\nCoach teams in adopting effective delivery practices.\nUse data to inform planning and decisions and resolve blockers and delivery challenges.\n Success Profiles\nWe use an assessment framework called ‘Success Profiles’ which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about the framework here.\nFor this post, the following Success Profile elements will be assessed:\nExperience:\nPractitioner-level ability in Agile and Lean practices, adeptly showing and comparing processes, fostering experimentation, resiliently adapting, and reflecting, employing a blended approach depending on the context, measuring, and evaluating outcomes, and helping teams in managing and visualizing outcomes effectively.\nPractitioner-level ability in communicating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, adeptly interpreting their needs, managing stakeholder expectations, handling both active and reactive communication, and supporting or hosting difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.\nPractitioner-level ability in planning, understanding the environment and prioritizing tasks, using data, managing dependencies, supplying delivery confidence, addressing blockers, and ensuring ability planning for teams.\nBehaviours:\nLeadership - Level 3\nYou can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here.\nTechnical Skills:\nThis role is aligned to General Delivery Manager within the Government Digital and Data Profession.\nPlease review the following to understand the skill expectations: Delivery Manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework\nThese skills will be tested during the Technical Assessment if you are successful at sift stage. They will not be assessed at application stage.\nHow to Apply\nApply online, providing a CV and Supporting Statement (of no more than 750 words) which provides evidence of how you meet the Experience and Behaviours listed in the Success Profiles above.\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application, but all statements and examples provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.\nPlease see our candidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment.\nShould a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the CV and Supporting Statement on the first Experience criteria. Candidates who pass the initial sift will have their applications fully assessed.\nPlease note: there may be a telephone interview prior to the final interview stage.\nSuccessful candidates will be invited to a competency based interview which will assess the Experience and Behaviours, and a technical assessment comprising a short presentation which will assess the Technical Skills. Full details of the interview and assessment process will be shared with shortlisted candidates once the sift has been completed.\nWe aim to provide feedback on request. However, if we receive a large number of applications it may not be possible for us to provide specific feedback on your application. We will provide feedback on request to candidates who attend an interview/assessment.\nExpected Timeline (subject to change)\nSift - week commencing 9th November\nInterview - week commencing 30th November\nLocation - In Person in either Dundee or Glasgow\nReserve List\nIn the event that there are more successful candidates than posts available, a reserve list will be kept for up to 12 months.\nAbout Us\nSocial Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. Our benefits help people from all walks of life in Scotland. We offer rewarding careers and employ people across Scotland in a wide range of professions and roles. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve. Find more about us here.\nWe offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits. Find out more about what we offer.\nAs part of the UK Civil Service, we uphold the Civil Service Nationality Rules.\nWorking Pattern\nOur standard hours are 35 hours per week and we offer a range of flexible working options, depending on the needs of the role. We embrace a hybrid working style where all colleagues will spend time in either our Glasgow or Dundee offices. There is an expectation of a minimum 2 days per week in your assigned location, which will be either Glasgow or Dundee. If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for, please contact us.\nSecurity Checks\nSuccessful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks - Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).\nYou can find out more about BPSS on the UK Government website, or read about the different levels of security checks in ourCandidate Guide.\nEquality Statement\nSocial Security Scotland are committed to equality and inclusion, and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.\nSocial Security Scotland are a Disability Confident Employer. We will consider and implement any reasonable adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment process and during the course of your employment, should you be successful in securing a post. If you feel you may require assistance with any part of our recruitment process, please contact us at .\nFind out more about our commitment to diversity and how we offer and support recruitment adjustments for anyone who needs them.\nRight to Work in the UK\nSocial Security Scotland is an approved sponsor under the UK Visa and Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. Please note that UK immigration guidance, including skill and salary thresholds and eligible occupations, is reviewed regularly and subject to change. If you require visa sponsorship, you should check the latest criteria to confirm whether this role meets current requirements before applying. You can find further advice at Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK\nFurther Information\nSocial Security Scotland’s recruitment processes are underpinned by the recruitment principles of the Civil Service Commissioner, which outline that selection for appointment be made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition -Recruitment - Civil Service Commission\nIf you feel at any time your application has not been treated in accordance with the values in the Civil Service Code and/or if you feel the recruitment has been conducted in such a way that conflicts with the Civil Service Commissioner’s Recruitment Principles, you can make a complaint, by contacting Social Security Scotland at  in the first instance. 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